''For characters from ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'', see [[Characters/TorchwoodMiracleDay that series' character sheet]].''

!!Captain Jack Harkness[[quoteright:222:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Captain_Jack_3549.jpg]]-> ''Have faith: [[SarcasmMode with a dashing hero like me on the case]], [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong how can we fail?]]''

-->Played by: Creator/JohnBarrowman (2006-present)

Captain Jack Harkness is the man in charge at Torchwood: [[GenreSavvy knowledgeable]], [[GoodThingYouCanHeal immortal]], [[EvenTheGuysWantHim absolutely gorgeous]]. Originally introduced in parent show ''Series/DoctorWho'', he revived after dying, and given a spinoff because of aforementioned reasons. At his core, oscillates between TeamDad and ActionHero. We've definitely seen him be the ScienceHero as well, though usually other members of the team (read: [[AsianAndNerdy Tosh]]) have that down.

!!!For tropes from ''Series/DoctorWho'' see [[Characters/DoctorWho the respective character page]]

* ActionHero: * AgeWithoutYouth: Albeit at a much slower rate. This is partially an AuthorsSavingThrow for if/when Barrowman starts to show his age, unlike the actors who work in ''Highlander'' shows.* AndIMustScream: On many different occasions.* AntiHero* ArtifactAlias: The name of Captain Jack Harkness is an alias that he took from a deceased American volunteer pilot to mix in with UsefulNotes/WW2 era London. He still goes by that title for most of his appearances, well after it serves any purpose. In fact, his true name is never revealed.* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: He always dresses in a 1940s military style, and when forced to wear anything else, he is not happy about it. * AwesomeMcCoolname: He seems to think so too, stealing it from an RAF pilot and all.* BackFromTheDead: It happens again and again and again... and again...* {{Badass}}* BadassBookworm* BadassInCharge: For Torchwood-3.* BadassLongcoat: Of the World War II greatcoat variety.* BerserkButton: ** Hurting any of his team.** Do NOT touch his Hand-In-A-Jar.** His [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] at the end of Children of Earth is implied to be a result of [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon Ianto's death]]]], culminating in Jack [[spoiler:[[ThisIsUnforgivable sacrificing his own grandson.]]]]* BewareTheNiceOnes: He can go from dashing and witty to deeply scary and holding a gun in Your face in a matter of seconds.* BiTheWay: Jack is attracted to men and women and anything in between, as well as non-humanoid aliens. It's stated in Doctor Who that in the 51st century almost every human is bisexual.* BodyHorror: His body regenerates layer by layer, and pops him back into consciousness as soon as he's able to live again... even if his skin isn't done regenerating yet. He does a lot of screaming at times. * BreakingSpeech: For a hero, he's frighteningly good at these.* BrokenAce: As the series progresses, you definitely see that Jack is having trouble dealing with the shitload of angst he's gotten handed with him. * BroughtDownToNormal: In the first episode of ''Miracle Day'', he discovers that while the rest of the world has become TheAgeless, he's now mortal again. [[spoiler:He regains his immortality by the end of ''Miracle Day''.]]* ByronicHero* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Gray's Cain.* TheCaptain* CampGay: Often puts on this persona when he wants people to underestimate him. And to piss off Rex.* TheCasanova* CartrightCurse: Granted, [[spoiler:his immortality means he can't find a lifelong partner anyway]], but as it turns out [[spoiler:they have a habit of dying in messy ways (such as Estelle and Ianto). Alice's mother Lucretia was a rare lucky one, and even she grew to resent Jack for his eternal youth prior to her death of old age.]]* TheCharmer* ChivalrousPervert: Has the occasional flirt with Gwen (and jokingly invites her for a threesome) and has a snog with his ex-boyfriend shortly before he asks his sometime 'dance partner' Ianto on a date. Has been happily married at least once, and is still good friends with his ex-girlfriend from the 1940s, pretending to be his own son. Makes sure to spend quality time with [[spoiler: his daughter and grandson]] and takes responsibility for them. The world is ending (again), he goes on a complete bender, gets smashed drunk, hooks up with a random bartender... and because he happens to be mortal that day (long story), he still [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome insists on using condoms]]. * ColdBloodedTorture: Was the Time Agency's top interrogator for 10 years. Considering other members included John Hart, and he is shown to do this on occasion, this is somewhat chilling.* CursedWithAwesome: After episode one of ''Miracle Day'', it's clear how lucky he's been with his type of immortality.* DarkAndTroubledPast: Quite a lot of his dark history has come back to bite him in the ass.* DeadpanSnarker* DeathByOriginStory: He was killed by Daleks on ''Series/DoctorWho'' and was revived and made immortal by a [[PhysicalGod temporarily god-like]] Rose Tyler. Every time he died subsequently, he then returned to life. When we meet him at the start of the series, his death and resurrection happened 138 years ago. His death, abandonment by the Doctor, and immortality, more or less created the Jack we see here.* DeathIsCheap: Explictly immortal so it's okay. * EthicalSlut: For the most part, extremely ethical about it, to the point where if someone in a monogamous relationship kisses him, he probably won't kiss back. Jack probably could have seduced Gwen away from Rhys if he had really tried to, but instead he was the one telling her to keep some small measure of normality in her life. Despite his desire for Gwen to have a normal relationship with Rhys, he has cast her longing looks in the series.* {{Expy}}: ** Comes across as a hybrid of the Doctor and Stuart from QueerAsFolk.** A BadassLongcoat who is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld that investigates the paranormal with a FiveManBand, which is a more adult {{Spinoff}} of a previous show? [[Series/{{Angel}} Wait, what show are we talking about?]] Just check the main images for ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Creator/RussellTDavies was pretty heavily inspired by Creator/JossWhedon.* ExtremeOmnisexual: "You people and your quaint little categories...."* GenreSavvy* GoodIsNotSoft* GoodThingYouCanHeal* HealingFactor* TheHero: Main good guy, or as close to one ''Torchwood'' gets.* HurtingHero* IconicItem: His BadassLongcoat.* ImmortalityHurts: Especially if it's well within reason that he has died '''''over a billion times'''''. He was once buried alive. He suffocated to death and came back every few minutes for ''two thousand years''. That's not the worst that's happened to him.* ImmortalLifeIsCheap* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Jack is well aware of the sexual tension between himself and Gwen. He also goes to many lengths to make sure her relationship with Rhys succeeds.* LanternJawOfJustice* LargeHam: Occasionally.* TheLeader: The brash type.* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJd5ldQXJdo "Captain Jack's Theme"]], a barnstorming (literally) action theme that also captures Jack's subtle mystique. According to Ben Foster, he wrote the theme around the phrase "here he comes in a ruddy great tractor", as the theme first plays when Jack... drives through a barn in a tractor.* LimitedWardrobe: Always wears some variation of a blue shirt, dark trousers held up by suspenders, brown boots and an RAF greatcoat. (When it's destroyed, Ianto finds a new one for him within a day ''while the world is ending''.) While there was some variation in earlier series, his outfit goes completely unchanged for the duration of ''Miracle Day''.* LivingForeverIsAwesome: While dying a lot isn't fun, living a lot provides a lot of opportunities for tail. It also comes in handy in his line of work. * LoveableSexManiac: According to Ianto, Jack's style in bed is "innovative... bordering on the avant-garde." * ManlyGay: More like Manly Omnisexual, but still.* MeanBoss: His management style involves a lot of snapping and shouting at people who question him and he seems to consider explaining his more unpopular decisions to be a completely foreign concept (which is unfortunate, because he's almost always right).* MrFanservice: He's the character most likely to get naked (which was also {{Lampshaded}} in ''Doctor Who''). Finally gets a proper (and quite magnificent) sex scene in series 4. * MrViceGuy: You'd think it would be his lust that gets him into trouble, but it's actually his brashness.* MysteriousPast: Other than his immediate family, birthplace, and former occupation, almost nothing is known about him. What is known normally isn't pretty.* NoNameGiven: "Jack Harkness" is not his real name, but one he stole from a World War II pilot and has used ever since.* ObfuscatingStupidity: His CampGay persona.* OfficerAndAGentleman: Despite being very ''very'' sexually active.* OffingTheOffspring: More specifically, [[spoiler:Offing the ''Grand''-Offspring]]. Not that he had much of a choice in the matter, though, especially after having crossed the DespairEventHorizon [[spoiler:over Ianto's death previously]].* OutOfTimeOutOfMind: 1874 years of unending torture didn't seem to bother him too much. It is possible that he simply stayed dead for the duration of it, but it can't be known.* PapaWolf: Hurt his Team and you are in for a world of pain. The Doctor has mercy. He doesn't. This is best shown on two separate occasions: first when he tricks a StarfishAlien in human form that manipulated Tosh via sex and emotions into teleporting into the heart of the sun, and when his team was captured by cannibals and he performed a BigDamnHeroes with a tractor and a pump action shotgun. A TeamDad for many the same reasons.* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Now past the 2000 mark.* ReallyGetsAround* ResurrectiveImmortality: He can technically die, but only for a short while (in at least one case, for several days) due to a mixture of this and FromASingleCell. * ShellShockedVeteran: Has seen more pain and destruction than any other good-aligned character in the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}, except the Doctor and [[HeroOfAnotherStory possibly Rory Williams]]. Becomes even more traumatised after the events of ''Children of Earth''. Manages to weaponise that fact from the get-go in ''Miracle Day'', when he's able to suggest experimenting on the ''horrifyingly'' gruesome victims of Miracle Day's consequences, without being halted by his own emotions. * TheSlowPath: Has had to wait from 1869 to 2008 for the Doctor to fix his vortex manipulator, and again from 27 AD to 2009 (with many, ''many'' deaths). * TheSpock* TimePolice: Formerly.* TouchedByVorlons * {{UST}}: With Gwen.* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Dying a lot and centuries of waiting isn't fun.

Total [[TheWatson Watson]] and general AudienceSurrogate, Welsh Gwen joining Torchwood is where the series begins. Functions as TheChick and/or TheHeart, so much so that a coked-up-alien-fish [[LampshadeHanging calls her on it]]. An identical relative of one [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead Miss Gwyneth]] (as the Doctor gleefully tells her, a "spatial genetic multiplicity"), which may explain her talent for using resurrection gimmicks. Does not take crap from anyone.

* ActionGirl* ActionMom: With the start of ''Miracle Day''.* {{Badass}}* BadassNormal* BerserkButton: Don't ever bring up her affair with Owen, even if you are Owen. Jack wasn't spared her wrath either despite holding her at gunpoint.--> '''Gwen:''' I got to get back Rhys.--> '''Jack:''' Ya because you're so in love with Rhys, [[YourCheatingHeart you spend half your time in Owen's bed.]]--> '''Gwen:''' -punches jack in the face.- [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK YOU!!!!]] * BoundAndGagged: In "Escape to LA".* BreakTheCutie: While she certainly went through her fair share of hardship beforehand, ''Children of Earth'' utterly destroys any innocence she may have had left.* TheChick: Female emotional center* DeadpanSnarker: As of ''Miracle Day''.* {{Deuteragonist}}* EasilyForgiven: She's the one who screws up the most, but suffers few if any consequences until Adrift.* {{Expy}}: Bears a resemblance to [[Series/DoctorWho Rose]] in her role.* FairCop: Was a police officer before joining Torchwood.* FieldPromotion: Of sorts after Series 1. [[Series/DoctorWho While Jack is having adventures with the Doctor]], she takes over Torchwood as the de facto leader since Cardiff is pretty much a 24/7 battlefield for weird alien shit and the actual commander was MIA.* HappilyMarried: From Series 2 onwards.* TheHeart* TheKirk* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Nearly all the problems in her relationship with Rhys in the first series are a direct result of her being unable to talk about anything that happens to her in her job. Thanks to Jack's intervention this gets quite a bit better in series 2, though.* NaiveNewcomer: In series 1, she freaked out over most of the stuff the other Torchwood members considered as normal as their morning coffee.* PregnantBadass: In series 3.* ShellShockedVeteran: By series 2, she can calmly ask a pedestrian if they've seen a blowfish driving a sports car in complete deadpan. By series 4, she's become just as casual about extreme danger as Jack, and freaks out newcomers by treating the end of the world like a game. * TookALevelInBadass* {{UST}}: With Jack. [[spoiler: However, both are not only aware of it on some level, there are some things they would defy or even kill each other over regardless by series 4.]]* TheWatson

Oh, Owen. Torchwood's resident DrJerk [[CombatMedic medical officer]], Owen likes [[INeedAFreakingDrink alcohol]], [[AnythingThatMoves sex]], and being [[BrilliantButLazy shockingly intelligent on occasion]]. Has a ''very'' nasty EstablishingCharacterMoment in his first episode when he uses an alien pheromone spray on himself to date rape both a random woman and her boyfriend. From that point on, though, he goes through absolute emotional hell about once every three episodes, and gradually becomes a much more agreeable, likeable person. Incredibly TroubledButCute ("[[EmotionalTorque I'M]] [[CaptainObvious BROKEN]], TOSH!"). Also functions as TheLancer. Is also the only member of Torchwood Three to never have met the Doctor.

* AbusiveParents: "Adam" hints that his mother wasn't very kind to him - he describes the day she kicked him out, when he was 16, as "the nicest thing you've ever done for me, Mum".* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The worst part wasn't when he died, or when he was revived as a deathless, sentient zombie when Jack used one of the alien Resurrection Gloves on Owen. Or even when Owen discovered that his body, while immortal, was no longer able to digest food or heal injuries naturally, making him rather fragile. No, the worst came in "Exit Wounds", when Owen was trapped in the control room of the Turnmill Nuclear Power Plant and faced the decision to vent the radioactive steam from the overheating core through the room he was in, in a HeroicSacrifice to save the plant from going into meltdown. As he told Tosh over radio, the fact that this body was already dead meant that he wouldn't die quickly from the massive dose of radioactivity but instead would be trapped inside his body while it was slowly being consumed by the radioactive waste shredding his cells. He shut off the radio before he vented the system as to spare Tosh having to listen to his screams... assuming he was still able to scream, that is.]]* AnythingThatMoves: Has a penchant for suggesting wild sex [[TheClimaxBeforeTheClimax any time the world's about to end]]. Once propositioned Ianto and Tosh when he thought they only had a few minutes left to live. Spends a lot of time trying to find new "[[FriendsWithBenefits Fuck Buddies]]" as well as one night stands.* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Which they all assume at first, but when he doesn't expire from the second resurrection glove's use it turns out he CameBackWrong.]]* {{Badass}}* BadassNormal* BiTheWay: Hypnotizes a woman using alien pheremones in his first appearance, until her boyfriend shows up... at which point he promptly hypnotizes him too. * BreakTheCutie: Starts the series completely broken, with no sign of "cutie" left. Gradually works his way back up, only to be broken over and over again. Eventually, we catch a glimpse of what he was like ''before'' Torchwood, and it turns out that he was a genuine cutie indeed. (In fact, Adam's interpretation of him wasn't even that far off.)* CameBackWrong* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:What his final death was]].* CombatMedic: Owen is the team's doctor, but also does things like swing out the window of a moving vehicle and shoot at cars while driving.* DeadpanSnarker: Excessively so. Its partly why he comes off as a jerk.* DisappearsIntoLight: Not a regular example but [[spoiler:when he dies for good, he's engulfed in a great flash of light, almost like an ascension.]]* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords]] [[spoiler: "It's all right. Oh, God."]]* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Initially freaked out over dying, but after being talked down and comforted by Toshiko, he calmly DisappearsIntoLight.]]* INeedAFreakingDrink: Frequently, which becomes hilarious once he loses the ability to [[spoiler: digest anything]].* JerkassFacade* JerkWithAHeartOfGold* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix9VXII53Mk A sad and painful theme]] that becomes prevalent after he dies once.* KavorkaMan* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Hard to tell how having his type of immortality reacts with his body being atomized. But for all intents and purposes, yes. By the end of ''Miracle Day'', he's probably very definitely dead.]]* TheLancer* TheMcCoy* OnlyMostlyDead: From mid-series 2.* OurLichesAreDifferent / OurZombiesAreDifferent: Take you pick as to which he is. He becomes either a [[spoiler: non-magical lich or a revenant zombie. Seems to be closer to lichdom than zombiedom as his mind is about as unaffected as it can be after coming back from the dead.]]* PetTheDog: Owen's introduction was date rape -- he used alien pheromones to make two people uncontrollably attracted to him. Two episodes later, he gets to experience the feelings of a woman being raped through telepathy, and promptly does a complete HeelFaceTurn on the issue. In the episode "Out of Time", he actually falls in love with someone, is dumped days later, and as a result (and after a period of violent mourning) generally becomes a nicer person. * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His first episode saw him committing date rape on two people. Just a few episodes later, he got to experience rape from the ''other'' side through a telepathy gizmo, which gave him rather a lot to think about. * RedRightHand: Evoked when he breaks his own little finger in an act of defiance. Since [[spoiler: it can't heal]], he wears one black leather glove from that point on. * SirSwearsALot* TheSnarkKnight* TokenEvilTeammate: Starts out as this in series 1 -- first by raping two people in the very first episode, then by starting an affair with Gwen, who's in a monogamous relationship and uses him to cheat on Rhys. The first series has him slowly working his way towards a HeelFaceTurn, an arc that properly kicks into gear in series 2. * TooSpicyForYogSogoth: After he [[spoiler: turns undead]], Weevils are scared shitless of him, to the point [[spoiler: they worship him like he was a god.]] He eventually gets GenreSavvy to this and weaponizes it.** [[spoiler: Death personified also avoids him like the plague (he's already dead and there's nothing for it to feed on)]], and the Nostrovites (carnivorous shape-shifters) won't touch him because he "smelled a bit off."* TraumaCongaLine: Gets a new trauma every couple of episodes. Starts out broken, breaks more throughout series 1 and eventually [[spoiler: kills Jack]]. Breaks again in series 2 and becomes [[spoiler: a suicidal zombie]].* TheUndead

!!Toshiko Sato[[quoteright:253:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Toshiko_7198.jpg]]-> ''I'm going to have to dig down into the system memory and see if I can find any remnants of deleted or temporary files. Completely illegal, of course.''

-->Played by: Naoko Mori (2006-08)

The first member of Torchwood to appear in the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}, Tosh first met the Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon London]]. She's Team Torchwood's [[TheSmartGuy resident brainy chick]]. Tosh has just about YourAnswerToEverything, and can [[BadassBookworm wield a gun to boot]]. A great example of IntelligenceEqualsIsolation, or maybe simply IJustWantToHaveFriends, made even more heart-breaking by her [[ObliviousToLove epic]] [[SleepsWithEveryoneButYou unrequited love]] with Owen.

* AscendedExtra: Was only meant to have her small role in ''Series/DoctorWho'', then [[FanNickname RTD]] transferred her character to ''Torchwood'' (even justifying why she'd been a medic there rather than a tech expert). It all payed off handsomely. Oddly enough, she is the only member of the ''Torchwood'' team besides Jack to interact with the Ninth Doctor. [[spoiler:She never even meets the Tenth.]]* AsianAndNerdy* {{Badass}}* BadassBookworm* BadassNormal* BewareTheNiceOnes: Her plan to get the team into the Pharm has Ianto calling her "warped on the inside". She responds by smiling happily. * BoxedCrook: Because she stole plans for a superweapon - and handed them over to terrorists holding her mother - she was due to be held without charge by UNIT until Hell froze over. Because the plans were flawed and she still made them work, Torchwood got very interested.* BrokenBird: Was tortured by terrorists, and subsequently tortured by UNIT for seemingly cooperating with terrorists, before Jack rescued her and offered her a job.* BreakTheCutie: But then just about [[DeusAngstMachina all the characters]] [[TraumaCongaLine exhibit]] this by the time [[DarkerAndEdgier the show]] is through with them...* BiTheWay: Has a relationship with an alien woman named Mary.* CartwrightCurse* GoOutWithASmile* HotScientist* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ve22Thlzw The theme used when she died]].* ShippingTorpedo: Not fond of the relationship between Owen and Gwen, partly because of how they treat her when she finds out, and partly because of her own unrequited feelings for Owen.* TheSpock* TheSmartGuy* TokenMinority: Made even better by the fact that she is, indeed, the brainiac... and Asian.* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

!!Ianto Jones[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ianto2_7622.jpg]]-> ''I clear up your shit. No questions asked and that's the way you like it. When did you last ask me anything about my life?''

-->Played by: Gareth David Lloyd (2006-09)

Responsible for getting the Torchwood team where they need to be, Ianto also can make a mean coffee and [[FanService looks great in a suit]]. Started out as TheBigGuy, but eventually was revealed to have a DarkAndTroubledPast in [[DysfunctionJunction his own right]]. He was initially part of Torchwood London and witnessed the Battle Of Canary Wharf. Becomes Jack's fuckbuddy after a while, and his exclusive boyfriend in series 2. He gets to meet the Doctor.

* AscendedExtra: Gained more prominence in later episodes than earlier.* {{Badass}}* BadassInANiceSuit* BadassNormal* BattleButler* BerserkButton: Do '''not''' hurt Jack. It doesn't matter that he's immortal and near-indestructible. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Meek and quiet Ianto Jones]] will stop at nothing to keep his lover safe!* TheBigGuy* BiTheWay: Starts having sex with Jack halfway through series 1. They properly begin dating and become romantic in series 2. Doesn't openly identify as bisexual: it's "just Jack". (He ''does'' identify as bisexual in the novels, so that's either DependingOnTheWriter, or simply because Ianto lies ''a lot''.) Feels comfortable with being Jack's boyfriend in the context of Torchwood, but ''quite'' uncomfortable with it around his family. * BoundAndGagged: ''Countrycide''* BreakTheCutie* ButtMonkey: "No broken bones. Slight loss of dignity. No change there."* DeadpanSnarker: From late Series 1 onwards, he starts sounding like he's doing a ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' commentary of the script. * EasilyForgiven: AvertedTrope as he was given a month's suspension after the events of "Cyberwoman".* [[spoiler:FamousLastWords]] [[spoiler:A thousand years’ time…you won’t remember me.]]** [[spoiler: In the audio "The House of the Dead", the last words of a recreated Ianto are, "Right, then. Best get a move on. Goodbye, Jack!"]]* {{Expy}}: Became more and more like [[QueerAsFolk Vince]], especially in his relationship to Jack, as the series progressed.* IfItsYouItsOkay: Sort of. In the series, he claims he's not into men, just Jack. In the novels however, he identifies as bisexual. It's hard to tell really - he's a good liar.* TheKirk: Alternates between this and TheMcCoy.* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZdPFMWKbso "Ianto Jones"]], a lonely theme that gets an even sadder variation with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYVYHDKMaI "The Ballad of Ianto Jones"]].* LoveMakesYouCrazy / LoveMakesYouEvil* TheMasochismTango: Seems addicted to it. * TheMcCoy: Alternates between this and TheKirk.* MoralityChain: WordOfGod says that if Ianto hadn't [[spoiler: died]], Jack wouldn't have had hit the MoralEventHorizon in "Day Five".* NoodleIncident: We never found out how he and Jack first started "dabbling".* RelationshipUpgrade: He goes from loathing Jack to [[StrangledByTheRedString inexplicably]] shagging him in series one. Series two builds on the "relationship" part, with them agreeing on an actual date in the first episode. He comes out to his family in ''Children Of Earth''. * TheReliableOne: Resents being this in the first series.* RightHandHottie* SharpDressedMan* SleepingWithTheBoss* SubmissiveBadass* WelcomeBackTraitor* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: It could be called "all the boring admin the specialist members don't get stuck with". According to Jack, his responsibilities are cleanup, getting them from A to B and [[RightHandHottie looking good in his suits.]]

!Other Recurring Characters

!!Rhys Williams[[quoteright:279:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rhys_8600.jpg]]-> ''[Singing along] Who'd you trust to transport your goods? Harwoods! You won't be sorry with a Harwoods lorry!''

-->Played by: Kai Owen (2006-present)

Gwen's boyfriend. A regular sweet Welsh lad who drives a lorry. Gwen tries to keep Torchwood a secret from him, which of course backfires spectacularly.

* ActionSurvivor: When he first gets involved with Torchwood, he's not badass per se, but he is willing to do some dangerous things on Gwen's behalf.* AgentMulder* BadassNormal: Eventually, not only does he become surprisingly desensitized to the weirdness around him, he's even willing to stand up to some of the freakier aliens. He even scares the shit out of Oswald Danes in series 4.* BackFromTheDead [[spoiler:After being stabbed to death by Bilis Manger in the series 1 finale, he was brought back to life via the Rift after it was opened and time was re-wound, thus preventing his death from taking place in the first place.]]* BerserkButton: He is shlubbish, out of shape, even a little dim sometimes. He's not in Jack's league, and he knows it. Gwen loves him anyway. Don't hurt her, or the secret conspiracy keeping Britain safe from alien invasion? It won't have the resources or ability to save you.* BewareTheNiceOnes: When confronted by the alien responsible for impregnating his fiance, ruining his wedding and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking impersonating his mother]], Rhys comes at it with a freaking ''[[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]''. Unfortunately, it spluttered out [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome just as he was about to use it]].* [[DungeonmastersGirlfriend Dungeonmaster's Boyfriend]]* HappilyMarried: From Series 2 onwards.* {{Muggle}}* NakedPeopleAreFunny: It's shown (twice!) in the first series that Rhys believes morning tea tastes better if you brew it naked.* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In ''Children Of Earth''.* SecretKeeper* SixthRanger: For Torchwood on occasion, most prevalent during the episode "Meat".* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Eventually. [[spoiler: Further upgraded to Understanding Husband.]]* UnfazedEveryman

!!Sergeant Andy Davidson[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AndyDavidson_4618.jpg]]-> ''If she's anti-terrorist, I would not mind being Uncle Terrorist.''

-->Played by Tom Price (2006-present)

Gwen's friend (and ex) at the Welsh police who's a bit miffed when she suddenly leaves the force for Torchwood. Is very fond of JustFollowingOrders and a bit snarky.

* DeadpanSnarker * FairCop: Though more cute than hot.* FriendOnTheForce: Originally just for Gwen, but eventually the whole team taps him (not like that) from time to time.* JustFollowingOrders: The main thing that restrains him from helping Torchwood, though he finally realizes which side he's on in ''Children of Earth'' when he finds out what the government are doing.* JustFriends: With Gwen, his ex. He's quite frank about his feelings for her, but he refuses to angst about it, and manages to just become mates with Rhys. * LockedOutOfTheLoop* {{Muggle}}* PoliceAreUseless: Though he starts showing his use in ''Miracle Day''.* TookALevelInBadass: At the end of ''Children of Earth''.

An office girl who has a very confusing first day when her job suddenly involves aliens. Goes off to investigate and quickly gets mixed up with Torchwood.

* NaiveNewcomer* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: for Martha* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite Gwen suggesting that she get a job with Torchwood in ''Children of Earth'', Lois is nowhere to be seen in ''Miracle Day''. Admittedly, Torchwood is officially defunct after ''Children of Earth''.

A perfectly normal middle-aged woman with a perfectly normal young son, Steven. Spent much of her life in the witness protection program. Tries to cope with Jack, her father, as best as she can.

* BreakTheCutie* GenreSavvy* {{Muggle}}* RememberTheNewGuy: She is Jack's never-seen-or-mentioned-before daughter. It is stated that she asked him to stay away due to [[Really700YearsOld his condition]].** However, this wasn't entirely out of left field. Jack has revealed that he's been in relationships numerous times before (and we even get to meet some of these people), and he mentions how painful he finds it that he can't age while they will, so the [=CoE=] reveals did come with some hefty foreshadowing.* TraumaCongaLine

!Recurring Villains

!!Suzie Costello[[quoteright:150:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Suzie2_8966.jpg]]-> ''She's a real find, this one. Gwen Cooper. She's better than me. She's so much better. (crying) [[SelfDeprecation I was never any good]]. [[TragicVillain Jack, I'm sorry]].''

-->Played by: Creator/IndiraVarma (2006)

Torchwood's TokenEvilTeammate. She was just like the rest of the Torchwood staff at the beginning- a normal, fairly approachable person with a share of her own secrets, and you couldn't tell that she was hurting beneath the congenial work personality. Except Suzie was the most broken of them all. She had a very hateful and cynical personality brewing under the surface, but [[TheWoobie mounds of guilt]] more than anything. After she got caught [[MoralEventHorizon killing people as test subjects for the Resurrection Gauntlet]], she tried to murder Jack. When he resurrected, she gave in to despair and [[BoomHeadshot capped herself]]. But she had a "Plan B" in the lurch to [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]] just in case she did [[DrivenToSuicide bite the bullet]].

* AffablyEvil* TheDragon: To Abaddon* HiddenAgendaVillain: It's not until near the end of the first series finale that we find out what he wants.* ManipulativeBastard* TimeMaster* TheWatchmaker* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never captured or killed, simply disappearing after Abaddon is released and later defeated. As such, it's very likely that he's still out there and biding his time in another time period.

Jack's former boyfriend of five years, also from the 51st century. A member of the Time Police, and -- like Jack used to be before meeting the Doctor -- a bit of a con man. Has a flair for the dramatic and wears cowboy gear for no discernable reason. Also shares Jack's love for standing on top of buildings.

* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Wears jeans, cowboy boots, a T-shirt...and a Hussar jacket.* TheCameo: His mugshot makes a brief appearance in a list of criminals in the ''Doctor Who'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]".* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Gray, not through any will of his own, though.]]* ExtremeOmnisexual: Once eyed a ''poodle''.* EvilCounterpart* {{Expy}}: Of Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and is even played by the same actor, Creator/JamesMarsters. He acts a lot like pre-BadassDecay Spike (if not even ''more'' unhinged), and Jack even acts a lot like ''Series/{{Angel}}'' around him.** SerialNumbersFiledOff: Of Jack himself, right down to his incredibly anachronistic wardrobe, being a rogue ex-Time Agent and his chosen name being an alias, that he adopted simply to parody Jack's own.* FauxAffablyEvil* GroundhogDayLoop: Spent two weeks (that lasted over 5 years) in a timeloop with Jack.* KatanasAreJustBetter* [[KissKissSlap Kiss Kiss Bar Fight]]* {{Leitmotif}}: A [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngUmg2ggLQI spaghetti western/soap opera-sounding theme with a guitar and organ]].* NewOldFlame * PetTheDog: In the finale, he's shown to still love Jack and have some sense of honor. He's still amoral but not genuinely evil as he first appeared to be.* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Boyfriend]]: Subverted. He looks like he's blowing up Cardiff just so Jack will pay attention to him, [[spoiler:but he's actually being forced into it by Gray.]]* StrawNihilist* WhyAmITicking: He ends up with a bomb strapped to him in both of his appearances.

!!John Frobisher[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Frobisher_6145.png]]-> '''Bridget Spears''': If ever you think of John Frobisher, just remember that it wasn't his fault.

-->Played by: Creator/PeterCapaldi (2009)

* AntiVillain: He only wanted to protect his family and do his job as best he could.* ButtMonkey* DrivenToSuicide* JustFollowingOrders: Which the Prime Minister manipulates to no end.* PunchClockVillain* TheScapegoat: Is blatantly used by Prime Minister Brian Green to take the hit for his morally reprehensible actions.* YouLookFamiliar: Previously played Lucius Caecilius lucundus in "The Fires of Pompeii". [[WordOfGod RTD has stated]] he that he's probably a descendant and he considers the death of Frobisher's family to be the universe balancing itself out for the Doctor saving Caecilius' family.** Capaldi would also later go on to play the Twelfth Doctor, which according to WordOfGod will be addressed.

* AncientAstronauts* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever* {{Kaiju}}* PhysicalGod* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Son of The Beast]] who was sealed within the Cardiff Rift.* WalkingWasteland: His shadow causes anyone caught in it to [[OneHitKill instantly die]].** SchmuckBait: According to the Torchwood case files that accompanied the first series, a lot of the dead recovered in the aftermath were found with camera and video phones [[TooDumbToLive still in their hands]].

!!Gray[[quoteright:196:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tw2_3.png]]->''"[[LawfulEvil I want you to suffer. I want your life.]] This is Cardiff. 27AD. The city will be built here, over the next 2,000 years. Your grave will be the city's foundations. Your blessing of life becomes a curse. Each time you revive, with a throatful of earth, each time it chokes you afresh, and you thrash on the edge of death'', '''''you think of me.'''''''"''

Jack's long lost brother. During their childhood, Jack was separated from him during a savage alien raid on their home, failing to protect Gray by letting go of his hand in fear, resulting in their father's death and Gray being dealt a terrible lot of servitude to those murdering creatures. By the time they reunited, Gray was beyond begrudged at Jack for the hell on earth he went through, and started a crusade to get Jack as close to dead as he could due to his immortality, and take down a few of his friends who would die permanently to spite him.

* AxCrazy* {{Badass}}: Managing to [[spoiler:''kill half of Torchwood Three'', one of whom ''Death himself'' couldn't harm]] certainly qualifies him as this.* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Jack's Abel.* DeadlyHug: Embraces Jack when they reunite, then [[spoiler:promptly jams a sword straight into Jack's chest]].* DeathSeeker: "I've heard people say death is such a waste. Hmpf. I imagine it more as a relief."* HeroKiller: This guy manages to [[spoiler: kill both Owen (an impressive feat, considering Owen is an undead zombie and technically unable to die) and Tosh, along with making Jack die many times over by burying him alive under what would become Cardiff]].* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Presumably when the Hub exploded, although it's never mentioned or cleared up for sure.]]* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQsrrSzwfmU A very vocal and tragic theme]].* TheManBehindTheMan: Specifically John, [[spoiler: who he has wired to explode if he doesn't comply]].* RoaringRampageOfRevenge* SatelliteCharacter: His whole character revolves around getting revenge on Jack, and not much else beyond that. Even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Lachlan Nieboer in the ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4jJ5iruoew Declassified]]'' for ''Exit Wounds''.-->'''Lachlan Nieboer''': He's just very, very bitter and hates his brother a very great deal. And that's, that's it. That's just the measure of his personality.* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Looks and (especially) sounds a lot like Jack.* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: What happened to him when the Hub exploded?]]* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

!!The 456[[quoteright:181:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_456_8903.jpg]]-> ''You will die. And tomorrow, your people will deliver the children.''

-->Voiced by: Simon Poland (2009)

* CreepyMonotone* EvilSoundsDeep: Mainly because it must breathe in a gaseous atmosphere, and [[FridgeBrilliance the concoction of gases could affect its voice pitch]]. A concoction, which may we add, is highly toxic to humans, and it has to sit in a box that acts as a controlled environment where humans can only enter by donning protective suits* InsaneTrollLogic: It has three heads, possibly indicative of three minds working in tandem, and oh, yeah- [[spoiler: it's getting high off ''children'']]. No wonder half the things it says sound deranged.* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers* NothingIsScarier: We never get a clear glimpse of what it looks like... and that's probably for the best.* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:Or rather, millions of forsaken children. And not even powered. Uses the children to ''get high''.]]* StarfishAlien* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: How it dies]].